E.W. Jackson

Earl Walker Jackson Sr. (13 January 1952-) was an African-American right-wing pastor and Republican Party politician.

Biography
Earl Walker Jackson was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on 13 January 1952, the great-grandson of slaves from Orange County, Virginia. He served in the US Marine Corps from 1970 to 1973 and practiced law in the Boston area for 15 years, becoming a preacher there. During the 1980s, Jackson - a lifelong Democratic Party supporter - embraced conservatism and became a Republican Party member. In June 1998, he was consecrated as a bishop, and his family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia that same year. In 2012, he claimed that African-Americans had developed a slavish devotion to the Democratic Party, which he claimed had abandoned the black community's values. In 2012, he lost the primary election for the US Senate in Virginia, lost the 2013 lieutenant-gubernatorial election, and again ran for the Senate in 2018. He was controversial for saying that gays were "perverted," "degenerate," "spiritually darkened," and "frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally", and for saying that homosexuality "poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies; it brings the judgment of God unlike very few things that we can think of."